This morning I was sitting in a train that didn’t move at all, getting more restless and irritated by the minute. I started listening to this audiobook I downloaded from ITunes: ‘Meditation in a New York minute. Super calm for the super busy...’ by Mark Thornton. A great way to de-stress on a super late train with super angry fellow commuters around you. Anyway, there was one practice that really woke me up.

Get a paper and pen and in a few minutes write down as many thoughts you are having or rather: the category. Are your thoughts related to joy, anger, depression, sadness, fear, happiness, love? Yep, I knew it. I bet most of your thoughts belong in the not-so-happy-category. Ok, now realize that you have – and this is evidence based stuff – about 60.000 thoughts a day. Sixtythousand thoughts! A day! Realize also that probably the thoughts you were having last week, last year or ten years ago probably were in the same not-so-happy category. Now start counting. Scary, isn’t it? That’s how much time we waste.

Meditation helps. You have to keep going, returning back to your meditation practice over and over. Even if you get bored, impatient. Even if you can’t get in the flow. Even if you don’t have time,  especially if you don’t have time. You don’t have to sit in lotus position for hours everyday. There are many ways to practice. On a train, at work, on a streetcorner in Manhattan. ‘Meditation in a New York minute’ is a nice way to get started.

‘Njoy!